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“This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform of "youth" as youth. ... In comic fashion people call themselves "young," because they have heard that youth has more rights than obligations, since it can put off the fulfilment of these latter to the Greek Kalends of maturity. ...[T]he astounding thing at present is that these take it as an effective right precisely in order to claim for themselves all those other rights which only belong to the man who has already done something.”

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!”

Play Spirit Song Winning Goal Heard Tree Youth Sweet Lovers Kissing Fairs Ears Sensual Bliss Grieving Tone Melody Fades Pipe Unheard Old Love

Author:John Keats

“Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, Birds chuse their mates and couple too this day: But by their flight I never can devine When I shall couple with my valentine.”

Heard Youth Couple Bird Flight This Day Mates Virgins Valentine

Book:Hesperides: or, The works both humane and divine of Robert Herrick ...

Source: Hesperides: or, The works both humane and divine of Robert Herrick ...

“I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.”

Men Age Brain Heard Middle Youth Regret Passing Passings Middle Ages Middle Aged

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks, and the voice of the New Negro is heard.”

Firsts Speak Voice Generations Heard Youth Fruit Renaissance Younger Generation

Author:Alain LeRoy Locke

“But indeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard him read many lectures against it; and I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offenses as he hath generally taxed their whole sex withal.”

Men Wells Whole Speak Sex Women Religious Heard Youth Mines Taught Touched Thank God Offense Uncles Lectures Courtship Giddy

Book:The Plays of Shakespeare ; The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations

Source: The Plays of Shakespeare ; The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations

“I was raised Christian after age 5, but I didn't really understand it until high school. A friend of mine invited me to his youth group. There I heard the gospel, understood it, and accepted it.”

Age School Christian Heard Groups Youth Mines Understood High School Raised Accepted Invited

Author:Francis Chan

“I would encourage the youth to get in to their bodies as much as possible through sport or exercise, and to embrace their uniques expressions as individuals and freethinkers. They are lucky enough to grow up in a time where the individual is celebrated - it is their duty to find their voices so that they can be heard. It is time to practice compassionate communication.”

Enough Body Individual Grows Sports Voice Practice Growing Up Heard Youth Expression Duty Communication Exercise Lucky Embrace Compassionate Freethinker

Author:Leilani Bishop

“It doesn't take billions of dollars or complex medical technologies, and there doesn't have to be a dramatic upending to the current order. It's trying to change the mindset of people who deal with youth to have less judgement and more curiosity. That's asking a lot, emotionally it's asking people to step up and engage more. But what I often heard was that is easier for them to engage emotionally, than to just be angry and judgmental.”

“I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.”

Speak Heard Youth Manipulate Offenders

Author:Lisa Bonet

“A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.”

Ifs Knows Made Age Heard Youth Equal Fifty Forty

Book:Confucian Analects

Source: Confucian Analects

“From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle.”

Wells Looks Important Problem Principles Heard Teaching Youth Taught Math Basic Principles

Author:Robert A. Heinlein